Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1931, Page 88

T is interesting to note the vast improve- ment in the musical programs from one season to another, and the stress that has b2gun to be put on the tang of profession- alism rather than on the mere juggling of amateur talent. Locally it is said that in the past three yeais musical exhibitionism has pushed the musical thermometer far up above the lukewarm point, and that now one may venture into any one of the more im- portant clubs and find therein musical enter- tainment which is entertainment—not the mere swallow wing of a program by “friends” which is an insult to the sense as well as to the ear. Cases in point may be illustrated by the well tuned programs of the Friday Morning Music Club, the University Club and the Arts Club— the latter having taken a consid2rable spurt during the past season. The Friday Morning Club has the most difficult time of it on ac- count of its myriads of morning programs and the fact that no music ever seems quite itself at that hour and that soloists sometimes just about get to their greatest musical pitch when they are shut off and nust needs go home to an early lunch. The audiences at this interest- ing club have, however, been gratifying during the past season, and the programs arranged by the committee for the most part adequate. Al- though indignation was voiced against a cer- tain vocal critic for stressing the appearance of Hans Kindler and Mary Howe at one of the iimal programs and not giving full-voiced eulogy to th2 rest of the progiam, the appearance of M. Kindler still seems a notable event and or * which in its connection with the proposed N©:ional Symphony Orchestra may some day ho . something of the historic about it. 7" F ! University Club has grown in :r.usical wis- dom during the past season and has pro- vi‘ed for its members and their guests really in eresting musical diets. This club, through th> nimble manipulations of L. L. Moneyway, is row in the position to cull here and there the b>st in music, and it remains a considerable hon:r for any soloist to appear there in that capocity. Great is said to have been the gnash- ine of teth by many local organizations which weir not included on its programs, especially a (e nperamental quartet, which applied for ad- 1ai “‘on through its local bars and was told po- . lit iy to go sell its wares at more informal ses- siors of pink tea parties and such like. J'E Arts Club, although sheltered from the outside world, has a sufficiently large meoi b chip to insure its exerting an influence in th> local musical environment. Here have flcu: .ed during the late season 22 programs, eight of them lecture recitals of historical or critt Wl nature (the humble music sleuth was firz -l most amicably by Edward C. Potter in ous nemorable lecture) 4#hd the rest recitals by o '-of-towners and local celebrities which ha e k-p# the picture-covered walls of the club (on> may always rest one’s eyes on oddly as- s >d pictafes during a concert) humming with mu-ical reverberations. A¢ the final concert of the season arrang:=d by th> Music Committee—of which Sade Styron has I:2en 2 vigorous and invigorating chief—the <~!ccm h-ard Brahms “Trio for French Horn, n ar 1l Piano,” was played by Herman R. in, violinist; Thaddeus S. Hess, French horn. 2nd Sade Styron, planist, while Katherine . Wa 2.r Smith played some in‘eresting selections on = piano (her interpretations of the selec- tions tver: more interesting than the program). And cther concerts which have been especially distinrguished during the season were the Tudor musi: p:ogram at Christmas time; the Carol Service by the choir of Emanuel Church of Bal:'n:ore; the series of Burney Travelogues; the 1 ctwre by R. W. Gordon; Princess Ataloa's reci‘al (here is a real personality); a recital by the *# shington Pianists’ Club, and many others which des2rve equal mertion. From the above list oae may see that this club has striven for the original and the interesting and that its Music Committee has done itself proud. Incidentally that committee was formed of such notables as Mary Ware (Goldman, Mary Parker Clements, Mirian Hilton (who sang delightfully during the “modern” Burney Travelogue), Katherine Lee Jones, Anton Kaspar, Lynch Luquecr and La Salle Spier. ACK from the Talbott Pestival of the West- minster School, at Ithaca, N. Y., comes G rirude Lyons—the newly invested president of the District of Columbia Federation of Music - Cirbs—with verbal flags flying and the band playing. Says Mrs. Lyons about the Bach “B Minor Mass,” which was given by the West- minster Choirs, Dr. John Finley Williamson and - John Milton Kelly conducting, assisted by an ens>inble from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: There was “an organlike tone, unanimity of attack, beautiful crescendo, with scemingly no limit to volume, often followed by * a pirnissimo like a Summer zephyr.” Albeit, the effezt of the singing seems to have been very fine. There were 100 affiliated choirs on one occazion, “1°'d by Dr. John Finley Williamson and Mrs. H. E. Talbott, followed by four stalwart schoricters clad in maroon vestments bearing a _Jarge gilt cross and American flag held on high.” Xt s>oms, %00, that there were something like . 2,000 voices singing a capella. . The reason for all this, besides the musical -Antercst attached to it, is the rumor that this organization is planning a Southeastern tour “3n October and that it may very likely be heard here in our city at that time. ,.WORD has come that Weldon Carter, noted o head of the Washington Musical Institute, -3s to be guest soloist at the Southern Music T2achers’ Institute on July 22 and 24, which ‘»lx holding forth in the manner of a festival at Athens, Ga., on that_dave. JUNE 28, 1931. THE SUNDAY' STAR, “’.~\SFIINGTON, . €., Pan-American Concert Tomorrow Night. Navy Band and Soloists Featured on Interesting Program. Upper left is Glenn Carow, phenomenal 15-year-old pianist, who was fea- tured week: before last at the Fox Theater; upper right, Margarita Cueto, sopra- no, who will be heard at the Pan-4American concert, and from lower left to right are Weldon Carter, head of the Washington Musical Institute; Dr. Hugh Rob- erts, whose College of Music recently celebrated its twenty-fifth annual com- mencement, and Frank G. Gebest of the Institute of Musical Art, who has taught Glenn Carow for the past 10 years. HE fifty-sixth program of Latin Ameri- can music will be given tomorrow night on the Esplanade of the Pan-American Union at 9 o'clock. The program will be given by the United States Navy Band, under the leadership of Lieut. Charles Benter, and the assisting artists will be Marga- rita Cueto, Mexican soprano, and Mario D. Rejas, Argentine tenor. Senorita Cueto has ap- peared twice before on Pan-American programs, while this will be Senor Rejas’ first appear- ance. ° A number of sclections will have their first renditicn at this concert and others have been included according to popular demand. Among the former are to be the overture, “Almas De- strozades,” by Alberto Alvarado, and a suite by Franco Zelaya. Senorita Cueto’s selections will include Talavera’s “Gracia Plena”; “Rio Indi- gena,” by Luis C. Mortet; “Maria la O,” by Er- nesto Lecuono; ‘“Recuerdos del Chimorazo,” by Paredes, and “Nortena” by E. Vigil Robles. Senor Rejas will sing a group of songs by E. Bianco, Mario Melfi, J. B. Massa, H. G. Petto- rossi and Juan B. Massa, and featured in the selections to be offered by the Navy Band will be a cornet solo by Musician Birley Gardner and a vibraphone solo by Musician Louis Goucher. ARIE HOWE SPURR is presenting the Spurron Planists Club in a recital at the Women’s City Club Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. The public is cordially invited. The two-piano recital of this club was given last month with the second piano parts played by Mrs. Spurr and the participants including Ellen E. Cannon, PFrances Perguson, Mary Louise Hoyt, Lella B. Foster, Virginia Bowman, Har- riet Weiler, Nan Fulton, Dorothy Graham Tal- bott and Evelyn Brumbaugh RECITAL was given by the pupils of Mrs, Charles Cole at her home, 5305 Forty- first street, last Wednesday evening. The fol- lowing pupils received medals for efficient work and a complete year’s work: Madeline King, Faynetta Wright and Ruth Rogers. EPORTS from the past week’s convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, held at San Francisco, indicate that it was one of the most successful ever. Among the various events was the donation of $10,000 in prizes and scholarships by the federation (especially interesting to Washingtonians is the news that Earl Lippy and Helen Stokes of Baltimore won first prizes); Mrs. J. E. Ottaway’s remark that parents should stop exploiting the musical talents of their children; Charles Wakefield Cadman saying that “this modern explosive, mechanical music re- flects the American idiom, but only part of it. There is repose in America as well as noise”; Dr. Howard Hanson suggesting that colleges have failed to give students a broad -foundation in music, and Mrs. Harry Bachner telling about the “amaszing” increase in musical training at most of the universities, and the fact that public schools are still far in advance of the colleges in presenting music appreciation. RECITAL by the piano and voice pupils of Mrs. Savona Griest was given at her res!- dence-studio last Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Assisting artists included Margaret Compton, violinist, and Margaret Plantz, dancer. The following students took part in the program: Priscilla Griest, Dolores Greist, Mary Reichard, Joseph West, Doris McKimmie, Kathleen Pearce, Winifred Smith, Clarence Adams, Dora Gabriel, Norine Buswell, Betty Kirkman, Sarah Kirkman, Philip Hutchinson, Margaret Menze, Jane Davis, Mildred Belfield, Elizabeth Ahern, Thelma Sager, Joyce Cafferty, Hilda Ball and Ruth Crecgger. MALE'I'I‘E ROACH SPENGLER presented students in a vocal and piano recital last ‘Wednesday evening at the American Associa- tion of University Women's Club Building. Those participating were Anna Wyman, Mar- garet Wyman, Sue Ann Dietz, Marian Brinker- hoff, Virginia Burdette, Mildred Stinebraker, Doris Green, Jane Fagan, Louise Michael, Helen Amouri, Adele Teehan, Charles Lusby, Melvin Weaver Carrico, Henry Engelhardt, Walter Engelhardt, Charles Engelhardt, Catherine Spengler, Miss Romana Newman, centralto, and Miss Isabelle Taylor, accompanist. THE N/IC WOR Musigraphs ARY HELEN HOWE, coloratura soprano, entertained at a musical tea last Sunday afternoon at her home, in Brookland. Those tak- ing part in the prcgram were Mrs. David Oertley, Delphine Barr Walsh, Mary Barbee, Willard Howe, Ray- mond Holden, Louise McNearney, Mary Howe Spurr, Martha Barbee and Miss Howe. RS. C. CARROLL BURKE presented her pupils “in a piano recital at her studio, 5004 Fifth street Tuesday evening, June 16. Thomas N. Lcef, bass, anc Henry G. Leef, tenor, will give a program of solos znd duets at 9:45 tonight over WMAL during the Wash- Ingtcn Musical Art Gallery hour. They will be assisted by R. E. Rapp at the piano. Clara Bernheimer, soprano, has just been ap- pointed soloist for the Gunton-Temple Presby- terian Church, 2t Sixteenth and Newton strects, where she will sing today for the first time, giving “O Divine Redeemer,” by Gounod at the morning service. Mrs. Bernheimer was recently heard in a song recital at the King- Smith studios. Louis Thompson presented the following artist-students in an informal recit2l in his studio last Wednesday evening; Edna Sowder, mezzo-contralto; Frank Olsen, bass-baritone; Lisette Follmer Thompson, mezzo-soprano; Catherine Lightburne, contralto, and Katherine Wood, soprano. Mr. Thompson sang a group of French songs to conclude the program. Evan- gelyn Frankson wzs the accompanist. Mildred Kolb Schulze will present Octavia Marshall in a piano recital tomorrow evening at 8:30 p.m. at her studio, 1729 G street. Edna Sowder, mezzo-contralto, was the guest scloist at the Burtonsville Grange, Md., last Tuesdzy. She was accompanied by Adeline Ellin. Catherine Lightburne, contralto, sang a group of songs recently at the Red Cross House at ‘Walter Reed Hospital. Arsenio Ralon, weil known concert violinist and instructor, will be featured as soloist of Washington’s Musical Art Gallery today at 12:15 p.m. over station WMAL. Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, concert accompanist, will be the assisting artist with Mr. Ralon. Band Concerts. HE schedule of the United States Marine Band for the coming week will include con- certs at the following places: Monday, June 29—Marine Barracks, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 1—United Statss Capitol, at 7:30 p.m, Thursday, July 2—Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, July 4, the United States Marine Band will participate in the community celebra- tion of Independence day at the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds. Benter leader, will play a program of tin-American music at the Pan-American Union Monday night. The regular concert at the Capitol will be canceled this date. Tuesday night, at 7:30, the band will play at Lincoln Park, East Capitol street. The program to be played at the Navy Yard Wednesday evening opens with the overture to Romberg's “The Student Prince” and includes scenes from Victor Herbert's “Sweethearts” and a xylophone solo by Musician Louis Goucher. Other concerts by the Navy Band this week will be Thursday, 6:30 p.m., at Tuberculosis Hospital, Fourteenth and Upshur streets, and Friday, 3 p.m., at Naval Hospital. THE United States Navy Band, Lieut. Charles La MUSICAL STUDIOS. MUSIC STUDIO, DOWNTOWN, PFURNISH- ed. srand piano. etc. WIIl sublet st seny 1easonable rate. Can be used as living quar- . ters. Address Box 324-8, Star office. Karl Holer COMPOSER 3803 13th ST. COL. 7356. * BESSIE N. WILD Voice . Culture, Piane and Harmony Studie, 6824 5th st.. Takema Park, D. C. ______PHONE _GEORGIA 3233. Institute of Musical Art Summer Term All Branches of Music Taught Dormitory Practice Rooms 813 18th St. N.W. 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